Between Rain (2026) Original Watercolour by Iryna Kindrytska

Irish weather never quite makes up its mind. One moment you're squinting into sunshine, the next you're caught in a sudden downpour with no warning at all. I was sketching near Killarney when the sky did exactly this — I've always been drawn to those endless, sweeping landscapes, and this small watercolor holds that exact moment: emerald fields dissolving into grey mist, dark shapes falling down the hillside like rain, with small breaks of raw paper where the light still fights through.
I painted this en plein air, right where I stood, as part of an ongoing series of travel sketches. Within minutes, the light had shifted twice and the paper was catching drops of real rain along with the pigment — so the painting kept changing faster than I could keep up with it. That's something a studio painting never quite reaches.

A travel sketch was never meant to be a postcard of a place. It's a small piece of actually being there — imperfect, a little unpredictable, entirely honest. Loose washes of green, grey, violet, and a whisper of pink bleed into one another the way a memory does: soft-edged, more feeling than fact.

Its intimate scale makes it an easy piece to live with. Hang it in a reading nook or a quiet hallway where the morning light can catch it, or simply keep it tucked away in a portfolio, to take out now and then — like a photograph you'd forgotten you loved.

Materials used:

Watercolour

Details:

• Watercolour on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 30.5 x 22.9cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky